aerospace

Researchers are using origami as the inspiration to create programmable surfaces that alter the physical properties of a uniform substance across a range of directions. Published in Advanced Materials, they describe programmable…

Sierra Space and IBM just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for collaboration on next-gen space technology and software platforms across Sierra’s range of space vehicles and infrastructure. They will integrate IBM's technology…

It wasn't an action film featuring a kamikaze mission, smashing a spacecraft into a stadium-sized asteroid, and resetting its orbit last September. It was NASA’s DART mission and the first test of a planetary defense strategy. MIT…

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota created a new type of optical element to improve the performance of telescopes studying radiation from the Big Bang.…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way, completing the intricate process of unfolding as it travels. The telescope’s sun shield and primary mirror were folded origami-style to fit into the Ariane rocket, its taxi into space. The…

When Jack Wayman started the first ever CES in 1967, space technology was making history following the first human flights into space.

Here, Samir Jaber, engineering content writer at materials search engine Matmatch, examines how materials testing could make or break humanity’s future on Mars.

The planet GJ 1132 b was born a gaseous world with a thick blanket of atmosphere and several times the radius of Earth. The "sub-Neptune" lost its primordial hydrogen and helium atmosphere because of intense radiation from its hot, young…

On March 18, California students had the opportunity to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call aired live at 12:35 p.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website.…

If you pay attention to anything “space” related, recently, General John "Jay" Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson had a discussion about the critical national imperatives for the United States Space Force.…